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Sun Belt Conference football stadiums by capacity

Unread post by CornCobPipes » Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:37 pm

This is a list of SBC current and prospective new members football stadium seating capacities (Current capacity sourced from Wikipedia)

1. Louisiana 41,426
2. Marshall 38,227
3. Southern Miss 36,000
4. Troy. 30,420
5. Ark State. 30406
6. Texas State. 30,008
7. App State. 30,000
8. ULM. 27,617
9. South Alabama 25,450
10. Ga Southern. 25,000
11. JMU. 24,877
12. Ga State. 24,333
13. ODU. 22,480
14. Coastal. 21,000
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Unread post by bigdaddyg » Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:58 am

I’ve always been confused about our seating (and capacity). I know for a good stretch our actual seating was something like 22,500 or 24,500 but my understanding was that the student section and on the hill was not counted so for games like Miami and Wake we bumped up to about 35,000ish. So is 30,000 the new official seating to include the NEZ? If so how many people are we actually allowed inside? I recall some folks batting around something about a fire Marshall deal- whether they actually knew the facts or not was unknown. If we actually fill every seat (or sell every seat) and you pack in the students and completely fill Miller Hill- how many tickets are actually sold for the hill, what is the updated fire Marshall allowed capacity for KBS?

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Unread post by Stonewall » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:32 am

Hmmm,I wonder what actual attendance looks like this season across that board.

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Unread post by BambooRdApp » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:35 am

Stonewall wrote:
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Hmmm,I wonder what actual attendance looks like this season across that board.
Agreed...App St at LaLa...many empty seats
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Unread post by AppStateNews » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:58 am

Seated capacity is at 30,000. We can get more with general admission tickets.

The capacity crowd for Wake/Miami was the max the fire marshall would allow due to egress, exits, etc. That will likely also go up with the NEZ facility.
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Unread post by Yosef84 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:59 am

I still think it is misleading to list KBS as 30K. I guess using "capacity" vs "seating" is the key. At some point, App needs to expand the actual seating. I'm not saying that day it here, because of budget concerns. If the budget dollars WERE available, I think we can absolutely justify the addition of 8 - 10K seats. Budgets and engineering are both constraints at this point.

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Unread post by mike87 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:19 pm

we need to add 450 chairs and get up to 4th.

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Unread post by APPdiesel » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:29 pm

We need at least 4 points of entry and exit before we expand anything. We already have NE and NW gates. There needs to be a SW gate behind the press box for fans coming down from Greenwood and a SE gate would help alleviate the massive bottleneck on the east side. They could even do a NE gate for upper (concourse level) and one for the lower deck near the rock.

With everything it comes down to money to build it and people to staff it.
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Unread post by AppSt94 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:17 pm

APPdiesel wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:29 pm
We need at least 4 points of entry and exit before we expand anything. We already have NE and NW gates. There needs to be a SW gate behind the press box for fans coming down from Greenwood and a SE gate would help alleviate the massive bottleneck on the east side. They could even do a NE gate for upper (concourse level) and one for the lower deck near the rock.

With everything it comes down to money to build it and people to staff it.
Noticed that there is a railing/rope behind the team benches. If they walled that off and allowed egress from the field, would that make a difference to the Fire Marshall?

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Unread post by Yosefus » Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:58 pm

Thru week 8.
Sunbelt avg. 18,840
Middle of pack in G5 attendance.
65. App State 31,604
82. Troy 24,109
90. Louisiana 21,064
96. Tx St 18,497 round out top 4.
MWC
66. Colorado St 31,447
MAC
89. Toledo 21,085
CUSA
70. UAB 29,068
78. Marshall 24,509
99. ODU 17,659
AAC
49. UCF 40,837
55. ECU 37,836
57. CINCY 36,858
63. Memphis 33,258
64. Navy 31,713

74. Wake 26,553
38. UNC 48,423
30. NC STATE 54,384

So we lead Sunbelt by a good bit. #6 in G5 attendance. Very surprising Wake is so low and Cincy as well, not sure stadium size of either. I think Wake is similar size to App seating,

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Unread post by huskie3 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:00 pm

There is already a small gate for those coming down from Greenwood and one on SE (across from Quinn). There is not anywhere on SW to put an entry. There is entry near The Rock for the beer garden. Maybe Miller Hill tickets could enter/exit where the visiting did coming from Quinn.
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Unread post by Stonewall » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:35 pm

Wake in the top ten , and we are out drawing them.

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Unread post by Yosefus » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:12 pm

Stonewall wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:35 pm
Wake in the top ten , and we are out drawing them.
Wakes capacity is 31,500. Next home game for them is NC State, should go up some but don't think they will pass us as long as App attendance holds steady.

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Unread post by Rekdiver » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:20 pm

Yosefus wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:58 pm
Thru week 8.
Sunbelt avg. 18,840
Middle of pack in G5 attendance. town population( city limits)
65. App State 31,604. 19k
82. Troy 24,109 19k
90. Louisiana 21,064. 241k
96. Tx St 18,497 round out top 4. 67k
MWC
66. Colorado St 31,447. 170k
MAC
89. Toledo 21,085. 270k
CUSA
70. UAB 29,068. 500k
78. Marshall 24,509. 45k
99. ODU 17,659. 226k
AAC
49. UCF 40,837. 300k
55. ECU 37,836. 170k
57. CINCY 36,858. 450k
63. Memphis 33,258. 600k
64. Navy 31,713. 40k

74. Wake 26,553. 200k
38. UNC 48,423. 57k
30. NC STATE 54,384. 474k
So we lead Sunbelt by a good bit. #6 in G5 attendance. Very surprising Wake is so low and Cincy as well, not sure stadium size of either. I think Wake is similar size to App seating,
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In relation to the headquartered town ( the metro areas are even larger) I’d say our population to attendance is quite incredible.

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Unread post by HighlandsApp » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:44 pm

We don't have 30,000 seats

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Unread post by bigdaddyg » Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:48 am

HighlandsApp wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:44 pm
We don't have 30,000 seats
I think we have about 24k but once the students and Miller Hill folks go through the gate we swell to 30k and about 35k for the Miami and Wake games a few years back. You’ve got to think that in the student section if they sat down a third would be out

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Unread post by HighlandsApp » Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:45 pm

bigdaddyg wrote:
Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:48 am
HighlandsApp wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:44 pm
We don't have 30,000 seats
I think we have about 24k but once the students and Miller Hill folks go through the gate we swell to 30k and about 35k for the Miami and Wake games a few years back. You’ve got to think that in the student section if they sat down a third would be out
As a poster said earlier I think we had 24,050 or 24,500 before the north end zone was built. So with those roughly 1,000 additional seats we probably can just feel safe saying we have 25,500 seats.

Now when North Carolina comes next year I'm sure for either that game or all season will have a set of bleachers sitting in the end zone area. It will be interesting if we put bleachers in the new asphalt area underneath in front of the scoreboard as well. I'm not sure that would really work because then nobody's going to be able to stand behind those bleachers to watch the game so it all just depends on what possibly might could fit there bleacher-wise.

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Unread post by AppSt94 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:48 pm

Can’t see the bleacher thing happening in the NEZ. The team enters and exits from there and temporary bleachers will eliminate the beer garden and NEZ patios. The seats in front of the video board are possible, but boy it would be loud.

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Unread post by Rick83 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:06 pm

I have no idea if this would work, but could we bring bleachers in and place them at angles on each corner of the field? This would be for next year, specifically the UNC game, but with the way attendance is going it might be useful for the entire season..

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Unread post by HighlandsApp » Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:27 pm

AppSt94 wrote:
Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:48 pm
Can’t see the bleacher thing happening in the NEZ. The team enters and exits from there and temporary bleachers will eliminate the beer garden and NEZ patios. The seats in front of the video board are possible, but boy it would be loud.
I would be shocked if we Don't put a set of bleachers there to hold somewhere in the 1,000 to 2,000 people range. If not for the whole season at least for that game. I mean the team could just go around the bleachers cuz they'll sit in front of those columns.

Going back to the number of seats I guess it's really tough because the original stadium held 10,000 so basically the students section benches each side held 5,000 people. I don't know if that was scaled back with the numbering of the seats I suspect it is on the east side. But who knows how many people are standing in the student section west side on a game day. It's more than 5,000 I would feel pretty certain.

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